Thursday morning

2010 words yesterday. Given that I didn't get started until later in the afternoon, not too bad. I thought I'd get more done given that I was incorporating some bits I'd written before (no--didn't count those as new wordage), but that actually made things go more slowly. I needed to tweak dialogue and adjust things to fit changes to the storyline. I also needed to lay out a conversation between a homicide detective and my protag and that required setting out clues, shading, laying groundwork, and not giving too much away. I know--that's basically storytelling in a nutshell. But the actual crime construction just seemed harder. Thinking up the financial chicanery bit the other day slowed things down as well. No, this won't be an in-depth course in forensic accounting or anything. I just needed to think of something that made solid sense, and that's harder at times than simple character interaction and moving the overall story forward.

9583 words since The Crunch began on Saturday. Time to step on the gas a little.

Thursday morning

2010 words yesterday. Given that I didn't get started until later in the afternoon, not too bad. I thought I'd get more done given that I was incorporating some bits I'd written before (no--didn't count those as new wordage), but that actually made things go more slowly. I needed to tweak dialogue and adjust things to fit changes to the storyline. I also needed to lay out a conversation between a homicide detective and my protag and that required setting out clues, shading, laying groundwork, and not giving too much away. I know--that's basically storytelling in a nutshell. But the actual crime construction just seemed harder. Thinking up the financial chicanery bit the other day slowed things down as well. No, this won't be an in-depth course in forensic accounting or anything. I just needed to think of something that made solid sense, and that's harder at times than simple character interaction and moving the overall story forward.

9583 words since The Crunch began on Saturday. Time to step on the gas a little.

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Only Chicago-area readers can address this, I know, but was WGN (both TV 9 and the AM station) always Fox-lite, or have they taken a hard turn to the right over the past couple of years? I've reached the point where I really wish they weren't the station of choice for the Cubs and Hawks, because I want to stop supporting them.

I know it's all the Tribune company, and the Trib is a conservative paper. But the on-air filtering, out of line opinions by newsreaders, and opinionation of their radio personalities just seem to have gotten worse over the last year or two. Or maybe I just wasn't attuned to it before.

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Only Chicago-area readers can address this, I know, but was WGN (both TV 9 and the AM station) always Fox-lite, or have they taken a hard turn to the right over the past couple of years? I've reached the point where I really wish they weren't the station of choice for the Cubs and Hawks, because I want to stop supporting them.

I know it's all the Tribune company, and the Trib is a conservative paper. But the on-air filtering, out of line opinions by newsreaders, and opinionation of their radio personalities just seem to have gotten worse over the last year or two. Or maybe I just wasn't attuned to it before.

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Don't you just love it when a minor character pipes up and tells you that they're going to appear later in the book whether you want them to or not?

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Don't you just love it when a minor character pipes up and tells you that they're going to appear later in the book whether you want them to or not?

Love those Google alerts

The first notice about Jani e-books, on the Harpercollins site.

Love those Google alerts

The first notice about Jani e-books, on the Harpercollins site.

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The Hawks fired Denis Savard.

They better know what the hell they're doing.

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The Hawks fired Denis Savard.

They better know what the hell they're doing.

wip

Sometime during the course of writing a book I reach a point where something small clicks. Then the scenes start forming in my brain one after the other, and I worry that I won't be able to write them all down in time and that some really really good things will be lost in the flurry. So I type notes, and hope for the best, because some of this stuff that's burning a hole won't be written in full for another 2-3 weeks.

wip

Sometime during the course of writing a book I reach a point where something small clicks. Then the scenes start forming in my brain one after the other, and I worry that I won't be able to write them all down in time and that some really really good things will be lost in the flurry. So I type notes, and hope for the best, because some of this stuff that's burning a hole won't be written in full for another 2-3 weeks.